US-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly USD 1 billion worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles.
The ban amounts to barely a ripple in USD 880 billion worth of a two-way annual trade between the two northern neighbours. But it marks another ratcheting up of President Donald Trump’s second-term trade war with America’s longtime ally and trading partner.
The import ban “certainly won’t do anything to help the trade tensions between the United States and Canada,” said trade attorney Patrick Childress, a partner at Holland & Knight and a former US trade official.
The latest sparring began over the summer when Trump reached back to a Great Depression law to impose 50 per cent tariffs on about USD 20 billion worth of Canadian imports, charging that Canada discriminates against US dairy, auto and alcoholic beverage producers. Canada ..
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